Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

I live in Florida and we have them come out at night to turn over our trashcans. It was about 9:30, I was jogging, and I was passing a driveway with two cars. Just as I was going past the cars, a smallish black bear came out from between the cars, and I actually bumped into it.

I must have jumped backward about 15 feet. The bear, to its credit, decided that chasing after and mauling a yelping, backwards hopping madman wasn't a good investment of its time and went off the other way.

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

umop_apisdn:CSB:Here in Red Lodge we have "bear-proof" trash cans. Which pretty much just means it won't pop open when it tips over. The bears go down the alley and tip them over one by one, looking for one that isn't latched properly. What sucks is we have a thicket of trees in our front yard. So when the bears manage to open a can, they grab a trash bag and drag it someplace "safe" to dig through it: my front yard. I sat up one night in August and watched a parade of 6 of them come through in on night. I just sat there and watched them, and raked up the mess in the morning.

xynix:That's why in Georgia you're allowed to take one black bear a year with a big game license.. I've yet to bag one myself though I spotted one on an occasion and couldn't get a good shot so didn't try. I've seen others up north and they come into the city every now and then. Even into Atlanta.. Last year there were two or three running around my neighborhood. farking bears..

That sounds incredibly stupid. The habitat is probably already stressed by the number of bears. I bet the real problem is a human epidemic, with too many humans building unnecessary suburbs close to the bears' homes. Fark your suburbs.

planes:Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

This is a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed Bearack Obearma.

Unfortunately, he used to be a hardworking taxpayer employed by Bair Capital, until Mitt Romney sent his job to China for some panda to perform at a third of the wages.

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

This is a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed Bearack Obearma.

As a registered independent that voted for President Obama last time and will be voting for him again...

that was just hilarious. :-DWell done sir!

/to anyone having trouble laughing at that, lighten up Francis

Okay, the picture is funny (even though I've seen it a dozen times), the rest is only amusing to the kind of person who likes John Denver tunes.

In Eastern NC a few years ago a hunter shot a black bear weighing over 800 pounds. That bear had such a thick roll of fat he could barely see; the fat was starting to push over his head and eyes. The official hunting registry refused to give the hunter a world record bear because they said the bear was "artificially" enlarged. What they meant was the bear was scavenging dead pigs from all the pig farms in the area and wasn't really acting like a wild bear any more. He had a circuit around the pig farms and would steal the dead ones from each farm in turn.

planes:as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

So they live in a southern or midwestern state, where most they take more money than they give to the federal government, and use most all of the subsidies, public assistance, welfare, and social security, and give far less back into the system?

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their care and sustenance.

This happens every freaking fall in the west. I was just thinking I should get out and go look for some bears, since I know they're starting their rampage about now.

What I find more interesting is our obsession with wild animals, while just about everything we do is designed to make them scarce and less threatening. But we luurrveee bears!!!----Maybe someone could go out and declaw them though, since they might hurt my purebred Nerfy-schoodle. Otherwise, I'm suing the city when my cat disappears.